ABOUT ME

I am curious about most subjects and change my mind on each one of them way too often. I was born and grew up in Milano, have been living abroad for a few years and now I' m back here where I work in a outbound tourism company and as a translator.

PHILOSOPHY

Answering to this question would require a fireplace, quite a few hours and an equal ammount of mugs of tea or bottles of wine.
However, to make it short, i wish there was more hitch-hiking around. And i think that using
gloves to pick up fruits at the supermarket is really stupid.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Sometimes I have time to show you around, most of the time I can only give you a place to sleep, a warm shower, and see you in the evening for a cup of tea with cookies and suggestions for your next day. Oh and I can give to my surfers an exeptionally useful map (??) of the public drinking fountains of the city :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first couchsurfing experience was as a guest in Brussels and I was welcomed from an host (Vlad) still in his pijiamas, slippers and husky voice. My following couchsurfing experiences were all as genuine as this first welcome.

Interests

A lot of reading of different kind but mostly fiction revolving around the idea of magical realism and historical novels. Then pretty much any kind of sports, I used to play basketball and waterpolo but in both cases trainings were mostly an excuse for hanging out with the team. I like to trek and to walk or bike around new places. In general I like to travel avoiding planes as much as possibile.
I'm interested in politics and I talk about it way too much so if you find the topic boring you should probably think twice before engaging in a conversation with me.
As evening options the best remains probably going out to a bar and talk uncoordinately while sipping crappy wine. I also enjoy theatre, cinema, nice evenings home, watching movies, cooking, talking about really anything at all.. Just please don't ask me to go to a club, I quite hate it.
And, yes.. I have what can be qualified as a sick passion for any board/card game.

• politics
• board games
• reading
• knitting
• sports
• teaching
• trekking
• accordeon

Music, Movies, and Books

I can't make a preference-hierarchy so i`ll just pick up some titles that i recently liked: as movies "Hiroshima mon amour", "the science of sleep" "everything is illuminated" "The hunt" "the man staring at goats" and a bunch of quite old italian comic movies i'll be oh so glad to introduce to you.
As for books, mixing everything up, my favourite writers might be: Pennac, Yehoshua, Ghosh, Camus, Orwell, Irving but not all of it, of course Tolstoj, not so of course Céline, and, most importantly, my beloved Romain Gary.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Couchsurfing in Greece on a lip-shaped couch with us being a group of 9 people giving 1 day notice! (thanks Matina)

Teach, Learn, Share

Hem.. i can teach italian and french, altough i've been already told i'm not very patient as a teacher.
I can also teach how to knit and traditional Swiss and Italian card games.
I am trying to learn accordeon and turkish which it's proving itself quite difficult so if anyone whishes to have a 3 years old conversation in turkish i'd be glad!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cabo Verde, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Kenya, Macedonia, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Belgium, Italy, Myanmar, Switzerland, Turkey

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